Khabib Nurmagomedov Threatens To Quit UFC Amid UFC 229 Brawl Fallout

Nurmagomedov has threatened to quit UFC if the company fires his teammate, Zubaira Tukhugov. The UFC lightweight champion made the threat in an Instagram post Thursday, just days after defeating Conor McGregor on Saturday night at UFC 229 in Las Vegas.

Here’s what Nurmagomedov posted:

I would like to address @ufc Why didn’t you fire anyone when their team attacked the bus and injured a couple of people? They could have killed someone there, why no one says anything about insulting my homeland, religion, nation, family?

Why do you have to punish my team, when both teams fought. If you say that I started it, then I do not agree, I finished what he had started.

In any case, punish me, @zubairatukhugov has nothing to do with that. If you think that I’ll keep silent then you are mistaken. You canceled Zubaira’s fight and you want to dismiss him just because he hit Conor. But don’t forget that it was Conor who had hit my another Brother FIRST, just check the video.

if you decide to fire him, you should know that you’ll lose me too. We never give up on our brothers in Russia and I will go to the